No Other World - Couverture rigide

Narain, Kunwar

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1906570205 ISBN 13 : 9781906570200

Editeur : Arc Publications, 2010

Synopsis

No Other World is Kunwar Narain's first full-length collection of poems to be published in English translation, and consists of poems selected from five volumes across five decades. Frequently inspired by characters, legends and actual events in India's rich and varied history, Narain writes with wisdom and a humanity that is at once compassionate and unremittingly moral. In his son's beautifully-modulated translations, Narain's poems communicate themselves to the English-language reader with freshness and energy.

"What characterises Narain's poetry is the delicate balance between thought and language, content and structure; his words give meaning to ideas."
Shanta Acharya

"In his Introduction to this volume, Harish Trivedi says that Kunwar Narain is probably the most highly regarded Hindi poet alive today. Both Trivedi and Apurva Narain emphasise how deeply the poet has read Indian literature from its Sanskrit roots to now. As an outsider to Indian culture I'm not in a position to judge Narain's learning or cultural sophistication by his references, but they are both continuously reflected in his urbane tone, the lightness of touch with which he deploys complex suggestions and ideas, and the modest sense of proportion with which he sets personal feelings and experiences in wider contexts. In these ways and in its range this feels like the work of a major poet."
Edmund Prestwich, Manchester Review

Born in 1927, Kunwar Narain now lives in Delhi. His literary output has spread over more than half a century of Hindi literature, and is concerned with post-independence India. Narain's poetry, short stories, literary criticism, essays, translations and varied writings on the arts have been translated
internationally and received many literary awards world-wide.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kunwar Narain (author) was born in 1927 and spent his early years in Ayodhya and Faizabad before moving to Lucknow; after many decades there, he moved to Delhi where he now lives with his wife and son. His A uvre spans various genres, including poetry, epic poems, short stories, literary criticism, essays, translations of the poetry of Cavafy, Borges, Mallarme, Roewicz and Walcott among others, and writings on cinema, history and the arts. Among his many honours are the Sahitya Akademi award; Kabir Samman, the highest all-India poetry award; Warsaw University's honorary medal; Italy's Premio Feronia; Shalaka Samman, the Hindi Academy's highest honour; India's civilian honour Padma Bhushan; the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour across all languages and genres; and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour of India's national literary academy. Apurva Narain (translator) was born in 1967 in Calcutta and grew up in Lucknow and Delhi. He variously read physics, management, philosophy, development and human ecology, in India, and at the University of Cambridge, and has had diverse professional interests as a consultant, researcher and editor. But it is literature that has been his abiding interest from an early age. He writes in English. This volume is a testament not only to his own literary sensibilities but also to his patient resolve to bring to readers of English an outstanding poet's work. Widely travelled, he is based in Delhi and spends time in India, England and France. an@cantab.net Harish Trivedi (introducer) is Professor of English at the University of Delhi, and was visiting professor at the universities of Chicago and London and the CETRA Chair Professor of Translation Studies for 2006. He has translated into English a wide range of poetry and short fiction from Hindi and co-edited Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice (with Susan Bassnett, Routledge, London, 1999) and a special issue of Wasafiri with Focus on Translation (with Theo Hermans, Winter 2003). He has published several essays and encyclopaedia articles on translation in India and is currently editing an anthology of Indian literature in English translation, 1500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Publications
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906570205
• ISBN 13: 9781906570200
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible